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#513.5: The #200wordchallenge is done!

From August 29 to September 2, writers were challenged to write music reviews by the same length rules as old print magazines: 200 words. No more no less. One of us even took it upon himself to take the challenge further with the old “Hit & Run” review style — a hard 80 words! Thanks to rock journalist Mitch Lafon for the impetus for this adventure.

The end result was 30 posts by six writers! Speaking for myself, I enjoyed the experiment. Mitch was right: forcing yourself to adhere to a hard 200 words does sharpen your skills. In addition, the challenge succeeded in bringing Vinyl Connection out of retirement (for now?) so no matter how you slice it, the #200wordchallenge has brought some good to the world. Each writer who participated even contributed more than they originally estimated they would! Perhaps the #200wordchallenge injected a shot of inspiration.

Be sure to visit our friends below, and check out their work. Thanks to each of these talented folks, we had a fun week. And a big thanks again to Mitch Lafon, a rock star in his own right. Click below for the posts, and give them all a hand (or 200 hands)!

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Was fun..it even got me to do an extra one(Stereophonics) at the last minute! I may even on some adhere to this rule for fun but than i tend to ramble too….
Aaron is a post machine!
Tons of fun reads…..

Do you remember when Aaron had that site Harlan Are a Pug? It was kind of a joke site but he posted five times a day on some days! Hahahah!
I used to do minimum 2 per day when I started but that was insane.

A big thank you to you too, Mike. It was a terrific idea and I certainly had lots of fun. An added big thanks for the warm words pointed my way too, from you, Mike, and other blog colleagues. If I was a certain numerically enhanced blogger I’d make some crack about the irresistible demands my massive adoring public but I’m not, so I won’t. But I think it’s going to be hard not to keep going now. Damn! (he says with total lack of conviction).

I know there is a certain delight in polishing off a giant post, with the depth of analysis that we find personally satisfying. But sometimes it’s a nice change of pace just to talk about why you like something!